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F Ivan Demidov - SKA St. Petersburg, KHL (2024, 5th, MTL)

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Demichad is showing to Dwarfkov who's the boss...
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This season in the KHL, Demichad has 6 points and is PPG, meanwhile, Dwarfkov has 0 point in the same league...
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Pavel Buchnevich said:
This is how it is at SKA. There’s probably not much he can do. He isn’t the first and won’t be the last that was treated like this.
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It's alright. Now Demidov will be even more motivated to join Montreal. I just hope he gets some solid play time anywhere this year.
 
Nabrules said:
Flyers fan here, came here to say Demidov looking great out there, exactly what MTL needed!

I don’t really know why this PHI/MTL thing is a rivalry. Michkov could be a complete bust for us and Demidov could be the next great Russian, wouldn’t matter cause we never had the chance at Demidov.

Happy both prospects are doing good!
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The funniest thing is, I don't think Montreal or Philly fans have any issues and the vast majority of us are cheering on both players. It's a select few 3rd party trolls that clog up these threads with their nonsense arguments.

I for one, really like Michkov and hope he's successful. I also really like Demidov and hope he's successful. It doesn't have to be a competition.
 
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danisonfire said:
For me he needs to beat 41 pts in 47 games. If he doesn't he will forever be living away from Pride Rock, banished to the Elephant Graveyard. That is 0.87234 pts per game and what the great Michkov had.

Right now he is at 1.00 pts per game after his first six games, so he is obviously vastly superior to Michkov. Remember, he was buried in a lower league and has only had a few games of experience at this vastly superior level.

0.87233 points per game this season would be a huge disappointment for me.
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The 5 decimals made me LOL. Chef's kiss
 
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Happy for the kid, hope he continues to progress, good for him, he works hard and he's an elite talent, glad he broke through in game 6, looked outstanding.

TheKrebsCycle said:
Let the debate begin !!
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There is no long debates to be had, we need to decide right now who's better, no one is allowed to leave their home till we figure it out
 
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so no points? o-ou. but seriously im pretty impressed how he has started this season. i thought he will have trouble playing his style in khl...but no. good for him and all his fans:)
 
santapore said:
so no points? o-ou. but seriously im pretty impressed how he has started this season. i thought he will have trouble playing his style in khl...but no. good for him and all his fans:)
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Played 11:36 in his game and saw little PP time, had 2 very good chances to score but one time Kuznetsov didn't pass the puck in favor of a shot to the chest of the goalie, and the other time his teammate flubbed a gimme goal on a missed shot after a beautiful pass from Demidov.

To add a bit more context on his usage by coach Rotenberg, the one occasion I noticed Demidov got decent time/opportunity on the PP he drew a penalty for his team to make it a 5-on-3. But then Rotenberg rewarded that effort by choosing to bench Demidov in favor of his veterans for the ensuing 2-man advantage.

So yeah, after two games getting more regular deployment and scoring more coach Rotenberg was back to giving Demidov rookie KHLer treatment in this one.

But as you've said, it's been impressive to see how good Demidov plays in the KHL overall, and how dangerous he looks offensively despite lesser offensive deployment and icetime than would normally be warranted with his level of play were he not a KHL rookie.

So yeah, even without taking stats into consideration Demidov's been great for SKA since the season began and has in my opinion more than answered any questions critics of his might have had about his level of play against a higher level of competition than the MHL.
 
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RedHawkDown said:
F***ing hell this kid is a beast.

Imagine the Habs having both. Michkov-Suzuki-Demidov, followed by Slafkovsky-Dach-Caufield. Woof.
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Don't take this as justifying the Reinbacher pick because I still think it's demonstrably the wrong selection but if Habs went the Michkov route a player literally exactly in Reinbacher's mould would be what they are looking for now. He looks like he will fill a hole that a lot of teams are actively trying to fill but yes the two magic Russians would certainly be fun to watch
 
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Zalos said:
I was mostly being sarcastic. :laugh:

Although I'll be most excited when he plays first or second line minutes on the regular.
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Of course that would bre great for his development but that is not only on him. He would have to play head and shoulders above the current top 6 guys to have that opportunity under this coach I think.
 
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